How to do V-Ups on an Exercise Ball

By jamie smithers

jamie smithers

Jamie Smithers has been a fitness model for over two years, working for Nike, VPX's Redline, and being featured in Oxygen Magazine. She has led cardio-bootcamp classes for two years and taught swim lessons and water aerobics for the past five years. Working out is a lifestyle, and learning new ways to enjoy being fit is what it's all about.

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Learn how to do V-ups in this free how-to video on exercise ball fitness and workouts. Burn fat and build muscle at home!

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In this segment we're really going to let your entire body share the work. We're going to let the lower body have a little time and the upper body have a little time. We're going to start out on our lower back using our balance ball for stability in between our legs, really working that inner thigh. The entire time you want to be holding this nice and tight. You're going to be working your lower abs as well as your upper body when we hand off the ball which I'll show you here in just a moment. Get down into position on your back. With the ball out below you're going to raise it up and you're going to hand off the ball to your hand and come all the way back so you feel a good stretch. You're also working your upper abs as well as your lower when you pass the ball up. So we're going to come up to the middle, meet in the middle, bring the ball back down and come all the way back up. Bring the ball back down, come all the way back up. Never loose that body position. It's really important if you want to get a good workout that when I bring my feet back down, they don't touch the ground. So as you come back down like this and then come back up and pretend like they're hands and receive the ball. Come all the way back up, receive the ball. It's really important to remember to breathe in these exercises because these are really strong ab muscle exercises. They workout really hard, those can be really difficult. So if it is too difficult for you, you can try a couple without the ball and then add the ball in because it definitely adds a whole other intensity for those V-ups.